By: Joshua Robinson, New York Times
Monday, May 12, 2008


From the article:

We know that in the course of even a single minute, when you’re getting distracted by all the noise in the crowd, the emotion, the discussion of what the rulebook says to do, most of the short-term memory gets emptied out, said David Meyer, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan. It’s sort of like what happens at a crime scene where we know that eyewitness accounts of what happened are greatly altered by emotion.

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